My Recent Chat with the Canvas Rebel
In September 2024, I connected with an online magazine called CANVAS REBEL, and I have shared our conversation below. The mission of the CR is to create a space for artists, creatives and entrepreneurs to be able to learn from
All About Branding with iWrite Youth
This week - Thursday, Feb. 24, 7:30 pm CST - I'll be talking via virtual Zoom about branding with a wonderful group of students in the iWRITE Youth Club. iWRITE is a nonprofit organization with the mission of building student
I’m baa-ack!
After some 20 months, I am finally back to doing school author visits—well, at recent two schools anyway! It feels so good to be doing what I love again following this loooooong Covid-19 shutdown that resulted in the cancellation of
Joint interview with my agent
Kidlit Creatives is a private Facebook group that offers wonderful support for children's book writers and illustrators. The Kidlit Creatives Team is currently made up of Manju Howard and Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, and I'm excited to be featured today, along
Guess what? I got an agent!
I'm super-duper-triple-axel-back-flip-cartwheel happy to announce that I officially signed with a literary agent today! My agent—(oooh, I love sound of that!)—is Keely Boeving, and she has been with WordServe Literary since 2016. Keely is always looking for new voices and ideas,
Butterflies Mixed with Cartwheels
When you get an email from a writer who's with the Los Angeles office of the SCBWI, you sit up and pay attention. If you don't already know, SCBWI stands for Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. It's the
Writing a Novel During a Pandemic
On Leap Year weekend this past February, I had no way to predict that it would be my last time to hang out face-to-face with my family for a long while. We were all in Baton Rouge, celebrating my nephew's
Happy Drops of Validation
In the deep sea of rejection that writing often brings, it sure is nice to get a bit of occasional validation. I've been querying literary agents; I've received nibbles here and there, a few requests, but no official bites yet.
New, New, New – Lots of NEWS!
I'm excited to announce the upcoming launch of my NEW children's picture book, Yazzy's Amazing Yarn.
My First Podcast! Thank you, Dan Blank!
Celebrating my fiftieth school visit in October was a milestone that made me want to do cartwheels (if I still can?). I wrote a fun blog about it that you can READ HERE, and it was an amazing feeling to
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